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Show "News Bits Aboul Yester-Years" i 5 Years Ago Contributions to the March of Dimes campaign in in Roosevelt Roos-evelt totaled $291.78 as the polio drive closed last Thursday Thurs-day night, and an accounting was made. Big contributors to the fund were the students of the Roosevelt Elementary School, who donated one-fourth of the total amount raised in the city. Two of the Uintah Basin's major ma-jor irrigation companies, Dry Gulch and Ouray Park, elected officers early in the week. Named to the presidency of the Dry Gulch Irrigation company was Byran D. Roberts, of Mont-wel, Mont-wel, and Van Winterton, Roosevelt, Roos-evelt, was elected vice-president. The Ouray Park Irrigation Company elected Byron O. Col-ton Col-ton as president and L. C. Wall, Sr., vice-president. Clem Labrum drove to Salt Lake Wednesday to get his plane, which had been grounded at the Salt Lake airport due to weather. He returned Wednesday Wednes-day evening. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Harrison Har-rison have taken an apartment in Salt Lake, where Mr. Harrison Har-rison is convalescing from an operation. They expect to return home in the near future. 10 Years Ago Twenty-three members of the Roosevelt Junior Chamber of Commerce were in attendance at a dinner meeting which was held Monday evening at the Onyx Hotel. Verland Nelson, president, presided. The Costuros five and ten cent store' has moved to a new location next door to the Safeway Safe-way Store on Main Street, and is now open and ready fo1- business. busi-ness. Legionnaires of Basin Post No. 64 accompanied James Dal-gleish Dal-gleish of Myton, district commander, com-mander, and Martin Curtis of Fort Duchesne, district adjutant, to Vernal Tuesday evening, where they attended a meeting of the Witbeck Post No. 11 held in the Uintah State Bank Building. Build-ing. Honoring their son, Val, who left Monday for Salt Lake City to enlis in military service, Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Gardner, of Ne-ola, Ne-ola, entertained the immediate members of their family at a dinner party last Sunday evening. eve-ning. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nelson and family, fam-ily, Mr. and Mrs. Theron Lea-vitt, Lea-vitt, of Roosevelt, and Don Gardner and Jack Leavitt, who left with Val. 20 Years Ago Two of our local boys who played on the D C H S basketball basket-ball team last year, Elmer (Bumps) Eldredge and Aldon Alexander, with Louis Neeley who coached at our high school last year, have been playing for the Ross Business College in the city league at Grand Junction. Junc-tion. Colorado this winter. By the last report in the Grand Junction Sentinal, they have not been beaten so far this season. sea-son. According to the lineup, Alexander is playing forward position; Eldredge, guard; and Neeley, center. The regular monthly meeting of the Roosevelt Business and Professional Women's Club was held at the home of Mrs. Hazel Ashton, Wednesday evening, February 3, President J. O. Or-ser Or-ser presiding. A special meeting was called Monday afternoon in the court room at Duchesne for the purpose pur-pose of forming a permanent county tax association. The following fol-lowing officers were elected: L. A. Hollenbeck, president; J. P. Madsen, vice president; Lulu Munz, secretary and treasurer. |